Article: Yamashita gold again? (Editor's note: Battle-scarred generals, like Tomoyuki Yamashita, were not expected to lug a treasure hoard around cited in this article.).(Opinion & Editorial)

LAST week the treasure hunters in Los Banos were featured in a long story by AFP. Theres a memorial shrine here in honor of the fabled general, Tomoyuki Yamashita. In recent years treasure hunters had excavated a deep "trench" behind the shrine that moved the authorities to build a fence around it.

Impoverished hunters

In two previous articles, I dealt with the treasure hunters one of them is my friend at a national TV channel who were impoverished by various ventures in search of the treasure hoard.

One group faced a damage suit in Baguio years ago for digging near a residential area, where one concrete structure (and its large septic tank) ...

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